Figure 2From: Fluorescence in situ hybridization as adjunct to cytology improves the diagnosis and directs estimation of prognosis of malignant pleural effusions Overall survival rate of patients with effusion cells exhibiting or not exhibiting aneuploidy for chromosome 17. There was a significantly prolonged survival rate for patients with aneuploidy for chromosome 17, which was always a gain of copy number except for one patient who exhibited predominantly monosomy 17.Back to article page